“They gorged on good. He figures thousands on luxury items alone. Toni would go to the grocery and put in everything she saw. “I had to do without when I was a kid,” she says.”
(Page 586 Are These actual Miles?)
I like this quote because I think we have seen a lot of stuff that happens in the fifties that we mimic today and this is one of them. People use credit to buy what they want but they don’t think about the actual end result of their actions they seem to think that they wont have to pay for it in the end but it is barrowed money. And that’s how these people got into the financial trouble that they did just as we do today. And this was just one of the examples mentioned in the book they also talked about buying a lot of books on credit and a puppy who later got run over. It seems like a void is being needed to be filled with these material things in the fifties that is present to the world today. I think that the slope of materialism started to really take off in the fifties and today we see the result of that.
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